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United Nations
Organizations' Indicators
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Millennium
Development Goals
 The goals focus the efforts of the world community on achieving significant,
measurable improvements in people's lives. They establish yardsticks for measuring
results, not just for develop-ing countries but for rich countries that help
to fund development programs and for the multilateral institutions that help
countries implement them.
Goals, Targets and indicators:
http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp
UN Millennium Project:
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/
UNDP Millenium Development Goals:
http://www.undp.org/mdg/
United Nations
Non-Governmental Liaison Service Millennium Development Goals:
http://www.un-ngls.org/mdg
WorldBank Millenium Development Goals:
http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/MDG/home.do
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UN Division for Sustainable Development
 Commission
on Sustainable Development (CSD)
As part of the implementation of the Work Programme
on Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) adopted by CSD at
its Third Session in April 1995, a working list of 134 indicators
and related methodology sheets were developed, improved and tested
at the national level by the world. Based on the voluntary national
testing and expert group consultation, a revised
set of 58 indicators and methodology sheets are now available
for all countries to use.
 Programme
of Work of the Division for Sustainable Development on Indicators
of Sustainable Development
web site at: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/
indicators/isd.htm
Describes the work programme of the Division
for Sustainable Development on indicators and the various reports
produced, including those below.
Indicators
of Sustainable Development: Framework and Methodologies - 2001
Contains
the revised set of 58 core indicators and methodology sheets.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
isdms2001/table_4.htm
Report
on the Aggregation of Indicators of Sustainable Development - 2001
Background Paper No. 2 for the 9th Session of the Commission on Sustainable
Development. Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd9-aisd-bp.pdf  Indicators
of Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies - 2001
This report has been prepared as the culmination of the CSD Work Programme
on
Indicators of Sustainable Development (1995-2000). It provides a detailed
description of key
sustainable development themes and sub-themes and the CSD approach to the
development of
indicators of sustainable development for use in decision-making processes
at the national level.
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/indisd/indisd-mg2001.pdf
Meetings
conferences and workshops on Indicators of Sustainable Development
Indicators
of Sustainable Development: Framework and Methodologies - 1996
United Nations, New York, August 1996 - 428 p. The
original "blue book" used by the testing countries from 1996-2001 and reported
in their country
reports. Includes methodologies for 134 indicators in the CSD
Working List organized in the Driving Force - State - Response Framework.
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ english/ english.htm
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ french/ francais.htm
- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/
indisd/ spanish/ espanol.htm
... UN
Statistics Division
The UN Statistics
Division (UNSD) compiles statistics
from many international sources and produces global updates.
Unrestricted free access is provided to selected global
datasets, such as the Millennium
Indicators Database, which presents 48 social and economic
indicators and related series by country and year since 1985, and
the Social
Indicators data set.
UNSD developed a list of environmental
indicators in collaboration with the Inter-governmental
Working Group on the Advancement of Environment Statistics.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/indicators.htm
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FAO
Socio-economic
indicators:
FAO socio-economic indicators provide a context for human activities
and their connection and feedback to the natural environment.
Indicators
of sustainable development:
Selected FAO activities, 1998
INDICATORS
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES - FAO
Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries - No.8, 1999
Use
of Indicators in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development,
by Jeff Tschirley, Sustainable Development Environment and Natural
Resources Service (SDRN), FAO Research, Extension and Training
Division, March 1996
Land
Quality Indicators and Their Use in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural
Development
Proceedings of the Workshop
organized by the
Land and Water Development Division,
FAO Agriculture Department
and the
Research, Extension and Training Division,
FAO Sustainable Development Department,
25-26 January 1996
Paper prepared under the Land Quality Indicators initiative, WORLD BANK,
UNEP, UNDP, FAO, Rome, 1997
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IAEA
 Energy
Indicators for Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies
IAEA, 14 April 2005. STI/PUB/1222, 161 pp.; 1 figures; 2005, ISBN 92-0-116204-9.
This publication presents a set of energy indicators for sustainable development
and is a versatile analytical tool for countries to track their progress on energy
for sustainable development.
Calculator
for the Indicator of Sustainable Development for Radioactive Waste
Managements
IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology (NEFW) within the Department
of Nuclear Energy developped an Indicator of Sustainable Development (ISD) for
the
management of radioactive waste (RW).
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UNDP
 UNDP Human
Development Reports, issued each year, include
human development indicators for 175 countries, summarized
in the Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/default.cfm
Human
Development Indicators
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UNEP
 An
Overview of Environmental Indicators: State of the art and
perspectives
J. A. Bakkes, G.J. van den Born, J.C. Helder and R.J. Swart, C.W. Hope and
J.D.E. Parker
RIVM/UNEP, 1994. UNEP/EATR.94-01 RIVM/402001001
GEO
Indicators (included in GEO Yearbook): 2003, 2004/05
The GEO Indicators are a set of selected quantitative parameters which reflect
headline trends for the major global and regional environmental issues addressed
under the GEO reporting process The
GHG Indicator:
UNEP Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions for
Businesses and Non-Commercial Organisations prepared
by Charles Thomas, Tessa Tennant and Jon Rolls for the UNEP
Financial Services Initiatives, available as a pdf document
at
http://www.uneptie.org/energy/tools/ghgin/docs/GHG_Indicator.pdf , June 2000.
The Guidelines provide a methodology to account and report on greenhouse gas
emissions, whereby information on fuel and energy use readily obtained by companies,
governments, NGOs and other entities is converted and aggregated to compute GHG
emissions. The step-by-step approach is accompanied by worksheets.
SCOPE/UNEP
Reports on Indicators of Sustainable Development
SUSTAINABILITY
INDICATORS: Report of the project on Indicators of Sustainable
Development. Bedrich Moldan and Suzanne Billharz
(editors). SCOPE 58.
John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New York, 1997 -
415 p.
Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
(SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), Commission of the European Communities, DGXI
and DGXII, and Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety of Germany.
The SCOPE project collected, coordinated
and synthesized work on sustainability indicators from around the
world. This book assembles a rich diversity of perspectives
and approaches, described by more than 50 contributors from many
different countries and cultures working in a wide range of fields
and organizations at all levels.
Other
reports from the SCOPE/UNEP project available in printed form
from Earthwatch:
Report
of the Workshop on Indicators of Sustainable Development for
Decision-Making.
Ghent, Belgium, 9-11 January 1995
UNEP/EAP.MR/95.1 - 128 p.
SCOPE
Scientific Workshop on Indicators of Sustainable Development.
Wuppertal, Germany, 15-17 November 1995
Charles University Environmental Center,
Prague, 1996 - 69 p.
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UN-Habitat
 The Global
Urban Observatory of UN-Habitat includes an Urban
Indicators Programme.
Urban indicators are regularly collected in a sample of cities worldwide in
order to report on progress in the twenty key areas of the Habitat Agenda at
the city level. Data collection is conducted through local and national urban
observatories as well as through selected regional institutions. The global
urban indicators database 2 contains policy-oriented indicators for more than
200 cities worldwide. Its results have been analyzed and incorporated in the
State of the World's Cities Report 2001.
Urban
Indicators: http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/
guo_indicators.asp
Guide to Urban Indicators: http://www.unhabitat.org/guo/gui/guide.html
A Global Analysis of Urban Indicators: http://www.unhabitat.org/guo/gui/analysis.htm
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World Bank
 Environmental
Economics and Indicators
Environmental economics supports the Bank's environment
strategy while assisting clients and partners to address environmental
problems as an
integral part of sustainable development.
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/environmentaleconomics/
The Environmental
Indicators section introduces many of
the environmental indicator initiatives within the Bank
 World
Development Indicators 2005: The World
Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier
annual compilation of data about development. The 2005
WDI includes
more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections:
World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets,
and Global Links.
Published April 2005 by
World Bank ISBN: 0-8213-6071-X
Also available: WDI
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004.
Little
Green Data Book. The Little Green Data Book is based on
the World Development Indicators, 2005 and
is the result of close collaboration between the staff of the Development
Economics Data Group, and the Environment Department. The
2005 edition coincides with important transformations linked
to sustainable development. This year will be remembered for the
entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol. It also marked a renewed
commitment by the G-8 countries to foster development in Africa. April
2005
Also available for 2002, 2003 & 2004.
Indicators
of Environment and Sustainable Development 2003 (421KB
)
Poverty — Environment
Indicators. Environmental Economics Series, Paper
No. 84.The World Bank Environment Department. Priya Shyamsundar. January
2002
Expanding
the Measure of Wealth:
Indicators of Environmentally Sustainable Development
Environmentally
Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series, Number
17. The World Bank, Washington, D.C., March 1997 - 110 p. For
the methods used to compile the wealth estimates, see Kunte, A.,
K. Hamilton, J. Dixon, M. Clemens, “Estimating
National Wealth: Methodology and Results”, Environmental
Economics Series, Paper Number 57. The World Bank, January
1998.
Monitoring
Environmental Progress: A Report on Work In Progress
ESD - Environmentally Sustainable Development
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1995 -
82 p.
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World Health Organization
 Children's
environmental health indicators
Health
in Sustainable Development Planning: The role of indicators by
Dr Yasmin von Schirnding, WHO, 2002
Environmental
health indicators: framework and methodology, Geneva,
WHO, 1999, available
in pdf format
WHO Europe
Environmental
health indicators: development of a methodology
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